Museum of the Cultures Of Vietnam’s Ethnic Groups :
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday From 8.00 to 11.00 am & 2.00 to 4.30 pm

The Museum of the Cultures of Vietnam’s Ethnic Groups, located in downtown Thai Nguyen in Thai Nguyen province, was established in 1960. It contains more than 4,000 documents, exhibits, and pictures, concerning all aspects of Vietnamese civilization. The museum also presents an extensive collection of agricultural, handicraft, and hunting tools. Typical ritual clothes with bright colors and decorative motifs of different ethnic minorities are also exhibited. The unusual costumes of the Tay and Nung ethnic groups used for worshipping their sorcerers are embroidered with lines and designs that supposedly perceive magical sounds.

The Viet Muong showroom presents nearly 500 documents, objects, and photographs illustrating archaeological articles discovered in Phung Nguyen, Dong Dau, and Go Mun in the north of the country. Exhibits of Vietnamese national agricultural and handicraft productions and brocades woven by Muong ethnic minorities are also displayed.

Exhibited in the Tay-Thai showroom are nearly 500 documents and artifacts related to the slash-and-burn agricultural technique and traditional trades of minorities, such as the Tay, Thai, Lao, and Lu. Women's clothes and musical folk instruments such as the tinh string instrument, the flute, as well as displays of the traditional ceremonies of several minorities are also exhibited.

The H'mong-Dao showroom displays approximately 600 documents and artifacts reflecting the agricultural practices of the H’mong, such as slash-and-burn farming, terraced rice fields, hunting weapons, and clothes of the H'mong-Dao ethnic group.

The Museum of the Cultures of Vietnam’s Ethnic Groups is a repository depicting the culture of ethnic groups living throughout the nation. It is also a place for people to learn about the origins and traditional cultural identities of every ethnic group in Vietnam.

Nui Coc Lake :
Nui Coc Lake is located approximately 10 km from of Thai Nguyen, 80 km from Hanoi. Nui Coc Lake lies in a magnificent landscapes of a mountainous area. The lake comprises 80 islets; some are covered with trees, some with flocks of birds, and others with mountain goats.

An hour away from Nui Coc Lake is Phoenix Grotto, the most famous site in Thai Nguyen province. Phoenix Grotto lies on the top of a 300m high mountain and is where revolutionary leaders used to meet.